Highly pathogenic avian influenza In Turkey

TURKEY - This is a followup report (No 2) from OIE on the outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Turkey.

20 February 2007

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Information received on 20/02/2007 from Dr H Sungur, Director General, Animal Health, General Directorate of Protection and Control, ANKARA, Turkey

Summary

Report type	Follow-up report No. 2
Start date	05/02/2007
Date of confirmation of event	08/02/2007
Report date	20/02/2007
Date submitted to OIE	20/02/2007
Reason for notification	Reoccurrence of a listed disease
Date of previous occurrence	31/03/2006
Manifestation of disease	Clinical disease
Causal agent	Highly pathogenic avian influenza virus
Serotype	Not typed
Nature of diagnosis	Clinical, Laboratory (basic)
Report pertains to	Entire country
Related reports	Immediate notification (09/02/2007) Follow-up report No. 1 (13/02/2007) Follow-up report No. 2 (20/02/2007)

New Outbreaks

Outbreak 1

Cigil, Cigil, Silvan, DIYARBAKIR

Date of start of outbreak

12/02/2007

Outbreak status

Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)

Epidemiological unit

Village

Affected animals

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Birds	207	64	64	143	0

Affected population

Backyard chickens

Outbreak 2

Yavuzselim, Yavuzselim, Merkez, BATMAN

Date of start of outbreak

07/02/2007

Outbreak status

Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)

Epidemiological unit

Village

Affected animals

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Birds	415	18	18	397	0

Affected population

Backyard chickens

Outbreak 3

Mirzabey, Mirzabey, Bismil, DIYARBAKIR

Date of start of outbreak

12/02/2007

Outbreak status

Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)

Epidemiological unit

Village

Affected animals

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Birds	730	2	2	728	0

Affected population

Backyard chickens

Outbreak 4

Kocalar, Kocalar, Bismil, DIYARBAKIR

Date of start of outbreak

12/02/2007

Outbreak status

Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)

Epidemiological unit

Village

Affected animals

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Birds	370	1	1	368	0

Affected population

Backyard geese

Outbreak 5

Akoba, Akoba, Bismil , DIYARBAKIR

Date of start of outbreak

12/02/2007

Outbreak status

Continuing (or date resolved not submitted)

Epidemiological unit

Village

Affected animals

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Birds	557	15	15	542	0

Affected population

Backyard turkeys and chickens

Summary of outbreaks

Total outbreaks: 5

Total animals affected

Species	Susceptible	Cases	Deaths	Destroyed	Slaughtered
Birds	2279	100	100	2178	0

Outbreak statistics

Species	Apparent morbidity rate	Apparent mortality rate	Apparent case fatality rate	Proportion susceptible removed*
Birds	4.39%	4.39%	100.00%	99.96%

* Removed from the susceptible population either through death, destruction or slaughter

Epidemiology

Source of infection

Contact with wild Species

Control measures

Measures already applied	Movement control inside the country Disinfection of infected premises/establishment(s) Dipping / Spraying Quarantine Stamping out Zoning Vaccination prohibited No treatment of affected animals
Measures to be applied	None specified